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Get your groove on with the dynamic sequencing of 4 loop engines, effects and mixing in Rhythmology. But is it more than a loop library?
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Beatbox Beast is an angry bunch of samples taken from the mouths of the young and talented. It's free or for a €5 no-brainer you can get the full version.
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All the classic drum machines packed into a single Kontakt based virtual instrument. Revolution certainly covers all your bases... and snares, hit-hats etc.
Kinetic Treats is a fun and joyful free gift from Native Instruments along with £22 to spend in the store.
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The grand piano owned by Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury has been lovingly captured and turned into an amazing virtual instrument for Kontakt.
Slated for a Christmas release, this new virtual drum machine has just been teasered on Facebook - and certainly looks the part...
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Sail away on a Sonic Ocean of granular flow and evolutionary currents with this boutique sound design instrument that also donates to the Clean Water Fund.
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Virtuoso Ensembles maps sections of instruments across your keyboard for a very customisable and playable orchestra.
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Dark Matter is chillier than the icicle hanging from an alien monster's beard who is about to jump out at you from behind a disturbingly shaped landscape dripping with the terrors of a thousand haunted worlds.
If you are too embarrassed to strap on a plastic 1980's guitar but still need that sound then you can find it in Digitar from Puremagnetik.
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A completely new sound engine from Output focusing on that big bottom end - but does it have any Substance?
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Take the grind and the coding out of scripting Kontakt instrument interfaces with Kontakt GUI Maker
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Escape into a world of shimmery pads and ethereal atmospheres in Gothic Instruments' Dronar Guitar Soundscapes. Heavy on the pads, light on the rock.
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Craft your own Minecraft soundtrack with the sublime tuned percussion instruments of Fluid Strike - get your beaters out.
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Output are poised to release a new virtual instrument engine in September, but they won't tell us what it is yet.
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After some unfortunate leaks Native Instruments officially announce Komplete 11. Is there enough new stuff for the increased upgrade price or are we buying more of the same?
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Still nothing on the NI website but we've got the full details of the contents of Komplete 11 and Komplete Ultimate 11
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e-Instruments reckon they can capture the soul of a Rhodes in 20GB in their Electric S - Waves did it in 4GB with the Electric 88 - which is better?
A promotional image for Komplete 11 Ultimate emerges from the depths of the internet. Is it for real? Probably!
Another old synth gets the Samples From Mars treatment and the Roland SH-5 is great sounding and often overlooked source of noises.
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"Transport" is designed to evoke ideas of outer space and other worlds rather than the more usual experience of delays, cancellations and road side burger vans.
Aeris takes a bunch of oo's ah's and oh's and transforms them into an interesting collection of pads in this Kontakt based vocal instrument.
You can now create your own instruments with the Presence XT Editor, but only as an added extra from the shop.
Apparently Scott of the Antarctic liked to have one of these tiny pianos onboard for a good sing-a-long. Now Sound Dust have added an old school grand and a dusty upright - can a piano have too much character?